St. Paul police arrested or cited 10 people for disorderly conduct and fighting after the Rice Street Festival parade, the department said Friday.

The Thursday night parade itself “went off without a hitch,” said Don Apitz, parade director. The festival, which started in 1910, is an annual celebration of the community.

Investigators are looking into “what enticed multiple fights and the behavior that occurred,” said Sgt. Paul Paulos, a police spokesman, who described the period after the parade as a “volatile situation.” Of the people cited or arrested, four were juveniles and six were age 18 or older, Paulos said.

In one instance, officers broke up a fight between three females near Rice Street and Front Avenue about 8:35 p.m., Paulos said. They cited the three, ages 17, 18 and 19, for disorderly conduct and released them. No injuries were reported.

In another case, police cited a 23-year-old man for disorderly conduct and booked him into the Ramsey County Jail. That stemmed from a fight in the area of Rice and Wayzata streets about 9 p.m.

Last week, after the White Bear Avenue Parade, there was a large fight involving “numerous juveniles and adults” in the area of Montana and White Bear avenues, according to a police report. On Thursday, police arrested three men in the case, a jail log showed. They haven’t been charged in that incident, but prosecutors charged one on Friday in a March gang-related case.

The Ramsey County attorney’s office charged John Demetrius McCaleb, 20, with crime committed for the benefit of a gang and second-degree riot. McCaleb told a sergeant he is a Hit Squad gang member, and on March 25, was at a video shoot on the West Side where a gun was being waved around, and 15 people were arrested, according to the complaint.

He said he’d held the gun in certain scenes and had been dropping rival gang signs as a way to disrespect them during the video, the complaint said.

It wasn’t clear where police had arrested McCaleb on Thursday — the criminal complaint said it was at the Rice Street parade; the jail log showed it was at Oakdale Avenue and Page Street.

Mara Gottfried has been a Pioneer Press reporter since 2001, mostly covering public safety. Gottfried lived in St. Paul as a young child and returned to the Twin Cities after graduating from the University of Maryland. You can reach her at 651-228-5262.

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